The Face of Pain - A Pilot Study to Validate the Measurement of Facial Pain Expression with an Improved EMG Method

Karsten Wolf; Thomas Raedler; Kai Henke; Falk Kiefer; Reinhard Mass; Markus Quante; Klaus Wiedemann

doi:10.1155/2005/643075

Pain Research and Management (Jan 2005)

The Face of Pain - A Pilot Study to Validate the Measurement of Facial Pain Expression with an Improved EMG Method

Karsten Wolf,
Thomas Raedler,
Kai Henke,
Falk Kiefer,
Reinhard Mass,
Markus Quante,
Klaus Wiedemann

Affiliations

Karsten Wolf: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Thomas Raedler: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Kai Henke: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Falk Kiefer: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Reinhard Mass: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Markus Quante: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
Klaus Wiedemann: Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2005/643075
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 15 – 19

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this pilot study was to establish the validity of an improved facial electromyogram (EMG) method for the measurement of facial pain expression.

Published in Pain Research and Management

ISSN: 1203-6765 (Print); 1918-1523 (Online)
Publisher: Wiley
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Medicine (General)
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7040

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